Upgrading to Ubuntu Quantal

[Josh H.]

Right now, my VPS is running Precise Pangolin, and I just wanted to get some opinions about whether I should upgrade.

Right now, here's my position: Upgrading would be good, mainly to get the newer repos, but the risk of something going catastrophically wrong is there. 12.04 was also an LTS release.

Could I use quantal repos with precise, or do I need to upgrade to do that? Should I make the upgrade?

Edit: thanks to whichever staff member moved this .

[s3_gunzel]

I have 12.10 on my VPS - To use .htaccess files I had to balls around with the Apache VirtualDirectory config file.

Wouldn't be too bad if it did break though, would it?

[Josh H.]

It wouldn't be catastrophic since I don't have many people viewing GV daily. If I broke it doing this tonight or tomorrow or something, it would be bad because it could take me several days to fix everything and get the configuration working how I like again.

Catastrophic was an overstatement. Maybe "extremely annoying and unprofessional of me".

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Anyone know about nginx and PHP 5.4 compatibility on Quantal? It seems to be okay on my dev machine here at home, but a transition could introduce errors, from my experiences.

[s3_gunzel]

Anyone know about nginx and PHP 5.4 compatibility on Quantal? It seems to be okay on my dev machine here at home, but a transition could introduce errors, from my experiences.

I don't Use NginX, so I can't help you there.

[Josh H.]

I would use apache if it wasn't so much less efficient than nginx.

[s3_gunzel]

I would use apache if it wasn't so much less efficient than nginx.

I know, Apache isn't great, but it does work and is simple, so for people like me who don't have the time to fix things, it works.

[Josh H.]

Nginx doesn't tend to require fixing, except the rewriting or URLs seems more complex. nginx and PHP-FPM + Percona MySQL work well for me. I can serve 61 concurrent users the index page of GV on a 512M VPS with little to no optimizations.

[Euan T]

Stick with the LTS is my recommendation. I always do for the sake of the long term support.

[Alex Smith]

I would second sticking with LTS for a server. The only time I wouldn't is if you had rolling release distro which means there isn't any huge updates and just a ton of small ones.

[Paul H.]

On a side note about PHP 5.4, MyBB won't be fully compatible with it until 1.6.10. You'll get random warnings here or there.